2004-05 · NASA ASRS report 617360
AN MD80 FLT ATTENDANT IN CHARGE RPTED THAT AN INEBRIATED PAX ATTACKED A FEMALE PAX AND WAS RESTRAINED ON A FLT FROM SLC TO DFW.
PAX; A MAN ASSIGNED TO A SEAT; MOVED TO ANOTHER SEAT IN SAME ROW AND STARTED TO FONDLE AND THEN BITE THE BREAST OF PAX SEATED NEXT TO HIM. A MAN IN THE SEAT DIRECTLY BEHIND THE WOMAN WITNESSED ALL OF THIS; THEN ASSISTED THE FEMALE PAX BY RESTRAINING THE MALE PAX WHO WAS ATTACKING HER. THAT IS WHEN THE FLT ATTENDANTS BECAME INVOLVED. THE PERPETRATOR WAS EXTREMELY INTOXICATED AND WAS IN AND OUT OF CONSCIOUSNESS. I ADMINISTERED OXYGEN WHILE 2 NURSES ASSISTED. THE PERPETRATOR WAS BEING VERY VERBAL WHEN AWAKE; MAKING STATEMENTS LIKE; 'I DON'T WANT TO GO TO JAIL' AND KEPT APOLOGIZING. HIS SYMPTOMS WERE CONSISTENT WITH ALCOHOL OR DRUG OVERDOSE OR A COMBINATION OF THE TWO. SO I SEARCHED HIS BAG ONCE PARAMEDICS HAD COME ON AND FOUND AN EMPTY 375 MILLILITER OF VODKA AND 2 EMPTY JUICE BOTTLES THAT SMELLED OF VODKA AS WELL. PARAMEDICS TOOK THE PERPETRATOR TO THE HOSPITAL. ONLY AFTER DEPLANING DID I HEAR ABOUT THE 'ASSAULT' TO THE FEMALE PAX. I RESPONDED TO THE MEDICAL EMER ONLY. NOBODY TOLD US WHAT REALLY HAPPENED UNTIL EVERYBODY HAD DEPLANED AND THE MALE WITNESS WAS CHANGING HIS SHIRT IN THE AFT LAVATORY; DUE TO VOMIT FROM THE PERPETRATOR. I NEVER WITNESSED ANY OF THE ABOVE STATEMENTS BECAUSE I COULD NOT SEE AROUND THE BULKHEAD IN FRONT OF ME.
Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.
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